Spate of weekend burglaries under investigation

Tuesday

Hutchinson police are investigating five residential burglaries reported over the weekend.

Police Sgt. Tyson Meyers said the number was unusual; however, he did not indicate whether they were being investigated as related crimes.

Two of the five burglaries were reported in the afternoon and evening on Saturday. The first allegedly occurred shortly before 4 p.m. in the Prairie Village Apartments, in the 1300 block of East 33rd Avenue. The person reported an unknown individual coming into her unlocked apartment and taking electronics. The second was reported on Sunset Drive, blocks away from Rice Park, after a woman reported that someone entered her residence and went through her belongings.

Two of the three on Sunday were reported within 20 minutes of each other. The first, at 9:50 a.m., was from a 73-year-old who said a person forced entry into his attached garage, located in the 2000 block of North Cone, also near Rice Park, and took items while he was sleeping. Minutes later, in the 600 block of North Jefferson, a 42-year-old man reported that someone entered his residence while he was away from his house and stole his flat-screen television and Playstation 4.

A 56-year-old reported the final burglary of the weekend, telling police at around 7:30 p.m. Sunday that an unknown person entered her residence while she was inside, as she found her back door pushed open.

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